Issue #8589: Decode PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable with the file system
encoding and surrogateespace error handler instead of the locale encoding to be
consistent with os.environ. Add PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode() function.
diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
index 92b971f..29f5fc8 100644
--- a/Modules/main.c
+++ b/Modules/main.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
 #else
     if ((p = Py_GETENV("PYTHONWARNINGS")) && *p != '\0') {
         char *buf, *oldloc;
-        wchar_t *warning;
+        PyObject *warning;
 
         /* settle for strtok here as there's no one standard
            C89 wcstok */
@@ -437,9 +437,10 @@
         oldloc = strdup(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
         setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
         for (p = strtok(buf, ","); p != NULL; p = strtok(NULL, ",")) {
-            if ((warning = _Py_char2wchar(p)) != NULL) {
-                PySys_AddWarnOption(warning);
-                PyMem_Free(warning);
+            warning = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(p);
+            if (warning != NULL) {
+                PySys_AddWarnOptionUnicode(warning);
+                Py_DECREF(warning);
             }
         }
         setlocale(LC_ALL, oldloc);